Macro Monday

We won't be needing Ice Cream much longer to keep us cool on a warm day. Rather something warm on a cool day. Got to love the cooler days of Autumn.

This is Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Ice Cream and Caramel Vanilla Ice Cream made at Birchwood Dairy outside of Town. For the record, it is the best Ice Cream ever made.

I wouldn't lie to you about that!

Favorite Fabulous Moments in Time

Last weekend at the park, we happened upon a Photo session for a Sikh couple who had just got married. I snuck some photos too!

This is my favorite photo of the happy couple!

I was a bit of a distance away and no time to change lens on my camera, but I still managed to get a few. I love the colours of their clothes. The beading and lace work of the dress was gorgeous.

Their Photographer made them dance a bit for the photos. I caught them spinning.

Here heading back to the car after the photos were done. I was happy to catch a few photos of their special day!

I managed to capture a Moment of their time that they will remember for the rest of their lives. This was their Moment in Time!

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Books

I love books. Not a day can go by where I don't have to read a bit of a book before shutting my eyes for sleep. At times I even have more than one book on the go.  Our local library is also an excellent source for books.

I think if I was one to buy more books than I do, one of the new E-Readers might be a good thing to invest in. I do buy some books, ones that I want to keep and read over, but otherwise the library serves me well enough. I usually only read a book once, so not too worth buying it.

There is just something about having a book in hand, the feel and the weight of it, turning the pages, getting close to the end of the story that I don't think an E-Reader would fulfil. You know, curling up on the couch with a good book. Just not the same I think with a reader!

I am always curious about old worn well used books as well. I wonder who besides me read this book. How many people enjoyed it? What did they think of the story? Have they lasted this long because they are a good read? The rough textures of the book covers, the thickened pages, the cracked spines, the smell of the yellowed pages all leave a mark and tell thier own story.And I would like to know that story as well! 

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Roasted Vegetable Salsa

I love the Fall!! Harvest time! My hubby and I went yesterday to the Apple Barn in town, and came home with a box full of vegetables.

My big catch of the day was a huge bag of Heirloom tomatoes and Peppers. It screamed Salsa to me in the kitchen, I swear it did!

Some of the vegetables that came home with us!

Roasted Vegetable Salsa

3 large Tomatoes, quartered

2 large Red Peppers, quartered.

1/2 Red Onion, cut in slices.

6 cloves Garlic

Coat vegetables in Olive Oil, sprinkle liberally with Salt and Pepper and spread out on a large cookie sheet to roast. Roast in 425 degree Oven for about 10 to 15 minutes.

When vegetables have finished roasting put them into your food processor and add:

1/2 tsp. Ground Cumin

1 tsp. Hot Red Pepper flakes

1/2 tsp. Salt

1/2 tsp. Pepper

Zest and Juice from one lime

A generous handful of torn Basil Leaves.

Process by pulsing salsa in the food processor. I like my salsas to be chunky rather than smooth. Taste and adjust your seasonings to taste.

For this Salsa we wanted to keep it hot rather than chilling it for our dinner. Salsa takes on a whole different taste when you serve it warm.

With the leftover salsa, you can chill the salsa and serve it next time with additional ingredients depending on your tastes. I like to add chopped up fruit such as Mango, Peach or Nectarines. It is also good with chopped up Avacado, grilled corn and black beans added to it as well. Serve with Tortilla Chips.

We served our Hot Salsa over Spaghetti Squash, Hassselback Potatoes and Baked Chicken.

Another hint with your homemade Salsas is to change up your herbs you add. Most Salsas have Cilantro added, but I like to add other herbs instead such as Basil. It totally changes the taste of your Salsa.

And of course you can make your salsa with Fresh Vegetables rather than roasting the vegetables. Roasting brings out sweetness of the vegetables.

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Today's Flowers

Its been one of those weeks where I have not seen a fresh flower for the entire week, so here is one from my photo archives for today.

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Typing Memories

When I was in high school, my Grade 9 home room was in the typing room. We started each day in Home Room for roll call before heading out to respective classes. Our home room teacher always wanted quiet while he passed on daily news and took the daily roll call but being the unruly kids we were back then the typewriter in front of each of us was just too much of a noise making temptation. It had bells, rollers and lots of keys and lots of kids in the class to push a button or ding a bell. It was hard for the teacher to tell which of the 30 some typewriters was the guilty party!

I also took typing in school, and learned on a manual typewriter to type. We had a cover that was placed over the keys to hide them and our hands went under the cover while typing. I learned to type this way, consequently I am a touch typer, and do not have to look at the keys to type. In fact if I do look, I make mistakes!!

Now I see these typewriters in antique shops and think like this one they bring back fond memories of simple times, they hold fond memories of simple times and have taught me lessons I still remember to this day! That can't be obselete!

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Sepia Scenes

This is the main cemetary located in Medicine Hat. One day my sister and I strolled through the cemetary, and this is one of the photos of that day. Most of the more modern cemetaries nowadays do not allow a raised cemetary stone as it makes it more difficult to cut the grass on a regular basis. In days of cutbacks, now it is cheaper to just mow over the flat stones rather than having to edge around and mow around raised stones. Seeing a cemetary that does have stones leaves personal spaces for the families to add thier mementos and flowers to the gravesite in rememberance of thier loved one.

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